Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	sin_n	soul_n	5,612	5	5.5561	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03609	The soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H.; Soules implantation	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1640 (1640)	STC 13732; ESTC S104198	169,253	375

hearts the Lord Christs baile will be taken for more debts then you owe nay the Father desires no better surety as hee himselfe saith Mat. 3.13 This is my beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased hee doth not say with whom I am well pleased but in whom that is in him and all that come to God the father in his name Thus the Lord Iesus Christ doth and so a sinner is freed from that wrath of the Almighty Secondly the power of Satan is crushed so that he shall never more bee able to bee Lord and Ruler over the soule truely humbled but wheresoever the Lord Iesus Christ comes Satan gives way to the supreame authority of the Lord Christ and the Lord Iesus makes all to vanish and no more to appeare or have any thing to doe in the heart as hee himselfe saith in Rev. 1.18 I have the keys of Hel and of death You know that he that hath the keyes doth all he opens and shuts he lets in and puts out whom he will so the Lord Christ hath the supreame command over hell and death and he can unlocke hell gates and bring out from the gates of death any poore sinner that is wronged by Satan and therefore when the Lord Iesus Christ arose he led captivity captive as a valiant triumphant Conquerour leades a company of poore captives Now then Christ having conquered hell and death wheresoever he comes Sathan gives way and dares not meddle there any more Therefore Christ saith in Luke 10.11 I saw Sathan fall downe from heaven like lightning that is when the Scepter of Christ was set up in the Gospel then the Devill that cruell tyrant fel down on a sudden and was faine to give way and not to lay claime to the heart Thus sinne is shaken off and comes to bee casheered from that soule for whom Christ hath undertaken Sin as it were challengeth prescription to the soule but Christ having taken possession he satisfieth all quarrels and beares all the charges of whatsoever sinne makes against the soule and when sin saith I have had a possession of his soule from his very birth to this day and why should I goe out now then the Lord Iesus saith the issue is out and thus sin challengeth a right to the heart but Christ saith it is forgiven And therefore though sin be never so violent yet the Lord Iesus saith that soule is mine and was created by mee for my owne glory and howsoever sinne hath crept in yet now depart I am come to take possession of it Rom. 8.3 there the Apostle saith What the Law could not doe in that it was weake through the flesh God sending his owne Sonne in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and for sinne condemned sinne in the flesh The phrase that fits our purpose is this the Lord Christ condemned sinne The judgement of Mr Calvin is this To condemne sinne in the flesh is nothing else but thus as it is with a man that is in law when the cause goes against a man and hee is cast in that he laid claime to we use to say hee is condemned Sinne layeth a kind of claime to the soule of a poore sinner and claimeth a kind of right upon these grounds Every sonne of Adam is a child of disobedience and so the child of wrath But that man is a child of Adam and therefore the child of disobedience and consequently death and damnation is due to that man and hereupon hee is mine Now Christ answers all these pleas of sinne and makes sin fall off from the cause and saith It is true that those that are charged with the sinne of Adam and are under the power of that corruption which they receive from Adam they are the children of disobedience and so no wonder though they are subject to wrath He grants all this but yet saith hee They for whom the sinne of Adam hath bin satisfied and from whom the guilt of it removed and they for whom Christ hath conquered sinne they ought not to be condemned for they are delivered from this wrath but such is this humble soule for whom I have undertaken Is the sinne of Adam imputed I have satisfied for it doth the sinne of Adam prevaile against him by my death I have overcome sinne and hell and hee shall haue the benefit of my victorie Now sinne falls off from the claime and loseth the day If the first Adam hath sinned against God the second Adam hath suffered if the first Adam hath polluted the sonnes of men the Lord Iesus by the power of quickning hath subdued the power of corruption so that neither the guilt of sinne can be imputed nor the power of sinne prevaile against the poore sinner for whom Christ undertaketh So then it is plaine that the Lord Iesus undertakes for the soule and provides for it as in all the three particulars this is the first particular of the possession Reas 2 Secondly Christ doth dispose of the soule for his best advantage This is one specialty that a man will dispose all his occasions for his owne convenience for his owne behoofe so farre as may be for his owne benenefit and comfort So when the Lord Iesus Christ comes to take possession he will have the rule and command of the heart But when Satan that strong man armed keepes the house and sinne rules in the soule in a mans naturall condition and that the soule is at their managing and at their framing and teaching it either lyes barren and fallow or else brings forth nothing but thornes and thistles as in Ier. 4.3 Breake up the fallow grounds of your hearts and sow not among thornes for the soule naturally being ruled by sinne is overspread with thornes and is altogether corrupt and detestable and Satan and sinne rule in the heart and affections so that now the whole frame of the soule bringeth out fruits of darknesse to Satan And hence it is that the Apostle saith Rom. 6.20 When yee were the servants of sin yee were free from righteousnesse that is when yee were under the power of sinne yee did not worke for God yee did all to satisfie your owne lusts the drunkard is free from the power of sobriety and the thiefe is free from the power of justice and so the graces of Gods Spirit rule not in a man But now when the Lord hath by the power of his grace bound the strong man and cast him out by contrition and humiliation then hee takes the soule and it is in the hands of the Lord Iesus Christ and hee disposeth of it so as may bee for the comfort of the soule and for the furtherance of the glory of his rich grace In Matth. 20.15 when the servants began to quarrell because they had but every man a penny the Master said Is it not lawfull for me to do what I will with mine owne so when the Lord hath cast out corruption and saith This heart and this hand and this tongue

to this Is this true and is thy heart humbled as thou saist then I say the Lord Iesus Christ is come and hath come many a day though thou perceivest it not So soone as thy soule is thus disposed the Lord Iesus comes and that suddenly too though thou knowest not at what time As when Iacob fell asleepe upon the stone and the Lord had made known himselfe to him he said Surely the Lord was in this place and I was not aware of it So I say thou hast beene truly humbled and the Lord Christ is truely come and thou knowest it not Ob. But can this be that the soule should bee possessed of Christ and not apprehend a Christ Answ Yes it is not onely possible but it is too ordinary and the reasons why it is so and the hinderances which keepe a soule from seeing they are these foure in particular for there be foure lets on our part 1. First Christ may come into thy soule and thou dost not know him As one man comes to another mans house and happily one that he hath loved and desired too yet his ghesse is such and the distance of the time so long since he saw him that he may be there and his friend never the wiser so thou maist complaine that the Lord Christ is not in thy soule yet knowest not when he is there this is the ordinary mistake in the soule as it is in the sight Mat. 14.25 26.27 Christ comes to his Disciples walking upon the sea and they were all affraid because they had thought they had seen a Spirit and they cried out for feare but Christ said Be not afraid it is I. Christ was then most neer to cōfort them when they had thought it had bin a Spirit to affright them and the fault was in their understanding they could not discerne him As it was in the bodily sight so it is in the spirituall eye thou saist it is many a day since the Lord Iesus did open mine eyes and burthen my soule and made me weary and made my sinnes loathsome to my selfe and I could even be content to be rid of my selfe to be rid of my sin Whence comes it that thou art content to see thy sin and whence is it that thou art burthened with it and that thou art content to bee rid of thy selfe and sin and all Is it not from Christ thy Saviour whence is it that thou art content to lie under the word of God and to be disposed by it Is it not from Christ Did you never heare of a poore countryman that went to the King in his hunting and asked him where the King was It hath beene so in many deare saints of God as Iohn 20.13.14 c. after the death and resurrection of Christ Mary went to looke for him and the Angell said Why weepest thou and whom seekest thou Oh saith shee Because they have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him Her soule did yerne after Christ and shee enquires of Christ for Christ and thought him to be the Gardiner Christ said to her Mary why weepest thou then shee turned her selfe and said Rabboni that is Master Mary loved Christ and was acquainted with a Saviour yet now because of the suddennesse of it she understood him not and therefore shee asked him for a Saviour So I may say to thee poore humbled soule Why weepest thou and thou saist Oh I seeke a Saviour if you can tell me the way whereby mercy may be derived from him to my soule I beseech you advise me of it if you know the way how I may carry my selfe before the Lord that I may find mercy in his sight let me know it The truth is Christ is there it is he that makes thee looke after a Christ and it is Christ that makes thee seeke unto him for mercy thou seekest to a Christ for a Christ Secondly as the soule of a poore sinner knows not Christ though he meet him in his way and out of the weaknesse of his judgement and by reason of his ignorance hee knowes not his presence so in the second place thou attendest not to the Lord Iesus when he is come therefore he comes meekly and quietly and calmely and spiritually notwithstanding thou regardest him not Christ came into the midst of his Disciples when all the doores were shut and they attended not to him so thou knowest not of a Christ because thou attendest not to him and his comming Consider this well the maine hinderance is this when the heart of a poore Christian is marvellously taken aside with his owne weaknesse and distempers and troubles and his mind is all upon them Christ passeth by and hee regardeth not as Luke 24.5 when Mary came to seeke for Christ the Angell said to her Why seeke you the living among the dead So this hinders an humble soule from the knowledge of Christ wee looke upon our corruptions and rebellions and rub the sore daily and we thinke thus can grace bee in such a heart as this and will the Lord dwel in such a heart as this thus vile and thus pestered with many base corruptions Thou canst never see him there Why seekest thou a Christ to comfort thee amongst thy owne corruptions that would hinder thee from seeing him and from receiuing mercy from him It was not for want of eyes that Hagar did not see the well but because shee did not search for the Well so it is with a poore soule The well of life is in Christ there is the fountain of all grace and mercy the well is hard by us nay it is within us but alas we sit like Hagars and thus wee lye and perish in our discouragements Simile If a man prepare for some great person happely some King or deare friend and one that he hath long looked for if he comes not then he gets him into a close walke and there hee sits sighing and mourning for his abscence and while he sits thus the man is come and hath beene long in the house before hee thinkes of any such matter and when he comes in he begins to aske if the King or his friend be come Oh say they hee is come long agoe where have you bin we wondred what was become of you Iust so it is here for when we are weldred in our owne sorrow and thinke thus Oh when will it once be The soule lookes long for Christ to comfort him and because hee receives not comfort he goes into the dungeon of desperate discouragements and then the Lord Iesus comes to refresh that soule though hee perceives it not Simile A man may sit long in a darke cellar or dungeon before he can see when the Sun comes into the house and shines there but let him come from the cellar and then he shall see the Sun shine cleerely So when the Son of righteousnesse shines into a man and reveales himselfe he gets him downe into